It looks to me like stomach acid leaking from around the button siteAnyone here have experience with gastronomy sites? This looks green with infection? I may be wrong, but surely leaving him naked in a high chair with a cat under his feet,felt tip pens and nothing covering his tube site is failing being a nursemum? I thought she had been gifted a few vests recently from tubie kids?![]()
But it could also well be infected.
Stomach acid because she's taken him off his medication. The acid can leak when the opening around the button is too large... This could be because she's not out enough water in the gastrostomy balloon... So it's deflated slightly and this allows stomach acid to leak....
It will also burn around his site. I've seen that site before with layers of skin burnt away because she's left stomach acid to burn his skin.
This is actually first time I've seen her use a dressing in a long long time. She hardly ever uses dressings.
That dressing needed changing.
If it's not infected already it soon will. Especially with as you say cats around.
A lot of us use dressings all the time or fabric bamboo backed gastro pads that you pop around the button to keep it clean.
She got gifted tubie vests, hardly ever see him wearing them....
Infact he wears all in one's with no opening for his gastro so she pulls his tube all the way up his vest, out of his neck
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This puts pressure on the site and will make is extremely sore on its own...
His site in the past has been absolutely appalling.
Now he's at school... They will comment on his gastro site being badly looked after. The nurses at his school will question anything and if it's repeated they will probably take further action.
Shes in the past said that J pulls on it to "self harm"
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If she disconnected it after feeds and didn't have it pulled so tight then it wouldn't tempt him.
Non of the basics of care are there.